On February 5th 2014, GSAS Microsystems in association with our Principal – Altium were a part of an event for Altium’s products Altium Designer and Tasking.
The event included an overview to Altium Designer and it’s features introductions. The event also showed how Altium designer is different from other EDA tools. FPGA Implementations, Altium Vaults, Team configuration center and an overview to the Rigid-Flex technology was discussed.
Moreover, Altium Designer 14’s new features were discussed and a Nanoboard 3000 Hands on session was held. For more information about hands on Altium Training, please feel free to contact us.
The Indian PCB tooling landscape since 2014
When this event ran in 2014, Altium Designer 14 was the dominant single-tool offering for Indian engineering teams sizing up against the established multi-tool flows from Cadence and Mentor (now Siemens EDA). A decade on, the landscape has shifted: ECAD/MCAD co-design, real-time supplier-pricing data, AI-assisted routing, and cloud-hosted DFM are now table stakes, and Indian PCB teams choose tooling based on team scale and integration depth as much as feature parity.
For teams that have outgrown the single-seat Altium model and are looking at a unified flow with deeper signal integrity, power integrity, manufacturing sign-off, and rigid-flex capability, Siemens Xpedition is the established alternative, and GSAS Micro Systems is Siemens EDA’s authorized engineering partner in India. The most-asked-for products in the Xpedition family are:
- Xpedition Standard: AI-infused PCB design with sketch routing, integrated Valor cloud DFM, and token-based add-ons (rigid-flex, SI). Sized for individual engineers and small workgroups.
- Xpedition Enterprise: flagship multi-board, multi-site flow with full HyperLynx SI/PI integration and Valor NPI sign-off.
- Xpedition Package Designer: 2.5D/3D IC packaging for advanced semiconductor and SiP designs.
For teams comparing the two head-to-head, our Altium Designer vs Siemens Xpedition Standard for Indian PCB teams guide covers schematic capture, routing, HyperLynx integration, constraint management, and the migration path between them.
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